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No. 442. Common salt, 4 lbs. 



Black antimony, 

 Flowers of sulpliur, 



Sulphate of iron, of each, 1 lb. 



Wood ashes, unleached, 1 peck. 



Mix thoroughly together, and put in a trough, where the hogs can eat 

 it at will. 



If either of these is used before the hog; is attacked. 

 Prof. Turner says it will positively prevent the disease; 

 and given freely in the early stages, it is curative. 



Another receipt, praised by Illinois farmers of large ex- 

 perience, and differing little practically from the above, is — 



No. 443. Sulphate of iron, 2 lbs. 



Soft soap, 2 gallons. 



Boil with several gallons of water. 



This is to be added to slop enough for fifty hogs ; and as 

 they come to the troughs containing it about two pounds of 

 soda should be added, to have the slop foaming as they drink 

 it. This dose should be repeated every three or four days, 

 for three times. 



The second remedy is the chlorate of potash. Prof. Wil- 

 liams says of the use of this in charbon : '^A large ex- 

 perience has taught me that the chlorate of potash is superior 

 to all other medicines." Unfortunately, it is too dear for 

 general- use, costing at wholesale twenty-five to thirty cents 

 per pound. Yet in special cases it may be used. 



No. 444. Chlorate of potash, 1 to 2 drachms. 



Water, J pint. 



Give in milk or slop, 3 or 4 times a day. 



The question of local treatment is an important one. It 

 IG recommended to foment the swollen parts with hot water 

 saturated with sulphate of iron at the outset. If gangrene 

 has come on, equal parts of turpentine and sweet oil will 

 have some chance of stimulating the surrounding tissues. In 

 the carbuncular variety free incLsions, and dressing with car- 

 bolic acid lotion, and cauterization with the hot iron, are 



